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Assembling The Categories

“You try to assemble them. And assemble them with a certain degree of balance and variety,” Wisse stated to AV Club. “If you have something old, you try to have something new. If you have a really narrow category, you try to balance that out with something that’s a little more general. It’s tricky.”

Academic is blue. Pop culture is pink. Wordplay is yellow. The lifestyle category has topics like housewares or consumer goods and is green.